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Post by hliyan »

leohonexus wrote: post #38

Hello from Hong Kong, I’m a researcher working on speech to facial mesh models that’s language-agnostic. Currently it’s a comfy Sunday afternoon and I’m at my desk downloading a huge dataset. Feel free to reach out in the comments, I have lots of free time while waiting for it to download. Good day to everyone!

Hello from Colombo, Sri Lanka. Been in HK a few times around 2010 (developed something for the Hong Kong Stock Exchange). Awesome place. Hope you'll gradually regain the freedoms you had back then.

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Post by ezekiel68 »

Hello. Thank you for wishing me a great day -- I wish you the same.

I remember sending/getting my first emails back in the early 1990s. I had an Amiga 2000 and I was learning C at the time. I would download libs, demos, and shareware from bulletin boards and University FTP servers over 14.4K dialup. y-modem-g protocol for the win, baby! It was great. Thanks for a reminder of the good ol' days.

The pandemic lockdown (and resulting ability to work from home) gave me the impetus I needed to finally make progress on a real-time streaming data processing system I've been mulling over since 2014. It's the opposite of cloud and/or virtualization; I call it "physicalization" because I dedicate nearly every core of a dedicated multicore server I built myself to specific purposes in a pipeline that handles incoming data streams. I'm learning about using shared memory for IPC, SIMD processing, advanced data analytics, and machine learning. From scratch!

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Post by zenkat »

Honest-to-goodness, real, face-to-face, unmediated human connection. So much of social/media tech has become a poor substitute for this basic human need. Friends. Family. Community.

Live music jam sessions is currently how I'm creating this in my life. I've found a group of dedicated amateur musicians, we get together and perform for each other. It's a lot of fun. :-D

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Post by rakejake »

softfalcon wrote: post #184
zuric wrote: post #176

Great post! So great that this will be the first time I post a comment here on HN. I’m from Sweden and I’m passionate about two things currently. The first thing is that me, my wife, my mother and my father is building a house from scratch to me and my wife. I’ve never built anything before so a lot of what free time I have goes towards reading up on how to do it. We started building 1,5 years ago and started taking…

I’m no longer building a house. My family did when I was younger. One day my Dad took us to a random plot of land and went “we’re building a house here”. I figured he meant contractors, did not realize that for the next 5 years, every weekend was going to be building a home from scratch. My parents are retired and live there permanently now. It was a wild ride, learned a lot.

Are there resources online on how to do this? I've always wanted to learn more about construction work, at least to the level where I can do some minor repairs.

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Post by js2 »

tomcam wrote: post #158
js2 wrote: post #79

I’m sick and tired of paying soda stream. Mostly on principle. My wife really likes her carbonated water though. So much so she’s green lit a kegerator for the sole purpose of housing a 5 gallon corny keg of carbonated water! Carbonated water on tap. Even better, I can plumb it into the fresh water line so it’s continuous! Infinite soda water on tap… till the co2 tank runs out anyway. I’m sure this is all old school…

TIL about corny kegs. They look like they last forever and aren’t that expensive. This will be a fun project. How will you get refills?

Refills of CO2 can be had at any local home brew supply shop, some local breweries, airgas, etc.

The corny keg I'll just fill with filtered tap water. It can be made continuous with one of these, but I'm not sure I have the water pressure for this:

https://www.morebeer.com/products/continuous-soda-carbonator...

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Post by dan_wood »

hliyan wrote: post #189
dan_wood wrote: post #175

Hello from Sydney Australia. We’ve got some beautiful weather here today (Sunday)! I just went for a surf with my beautiful wife while the grandparents walked our 6 month old around the beach. I wish the world was a peaceful as our time in the water.

Hello from Colombo, Sri Lanka. I was there on work this September. Incredible place. Like a more chilled out version of New York. I envy your distance from all the crap that's going on in the world.

Sri Lanka, what a beautiful island. I visited in 2020. It was definitely one of my most memorable travels.

The train trip from Colombo to Anuradhapura to Jaffna in third class was so much fun. The people of Sri Lanka are very welcoming. And the food… yum.

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Post by jmcantrell »

Hello.

I appreciate this gesture, and also feel nostalgic for the primordial internet. I try to hold on to what felt magical about it to me in the early days.

One of the remaining things left in my life that I feel passionate about is technology and programming. I've had a difficult time dealing with depression and that has cost me my career, but the one thing that keeps me going is learning new stuff and working toward mastery of my craft.

I hope you have a great day, as well :)

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